Southside park in Tyler, Texas

Five Years to Start and Three Days to Finish

For several years I have had to deal with repeated emails from my old cPanel host telling me that so-and-so plugin is out of date or that some critical vulnerability has been found in WordPress. Frankly, I have been sick of using WordPress for my personal website for a long time. I originally set it up using cPanel on VentraIP because it was cheap ($12/year) and easy to manage especially with auto-updating plugins and themes but I have been considering migrating to something simpler and easier to use for at least 5 years. ...

March 18, 2026 · 6 min · Nick Hayden